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Why the Masses Despise Critical Thinking

By Steve Siebold

How does Santa Claus get to all of those houses in one night? As a child, did that question ever cross your mind? Most likely, it did. This is an example of our early attempts to employ critical thinking in our lives. As we mature and become more cognitively proficient, we’re easily able to answer questions of this nature. The problem is sometimes we don’t like the answers, so we purposely avoid the proof, data and evidence that comprise the building blocks of critical thinking. In this clip, I explore why this occurs. #personaldevelopment #criticalthinking

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The Disease of Middle-Class Consciousness

By Steve Siebold

Any philosopher, of which I clearly am not, will tell you that there are thousands of levels of conscious awareness. Fair enough, but as it relates to performance, we look at the top 5. Squarely in the middle rests the average person operating under middle-class consciousness. Once you understand this limited level of thinking, it’s easy to understand why the masses struggle to succeed. As judgmental as it sounds, there’s substantial data that support it. #personaldevelopment

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Developing Entrepreneurial Immunity

By Steve Siebold

The road to becoming a successful, seasoned entrepreneur will humble even the toughest amongst us. This journey is fraught with rejection, criticism and failure, and if it’s not something you’re compelled to do, I would avoid it. That said, if you decide to engage in this unique method of fortune building, you must develop emotional immunity. In this clip, I explain. #personaldevelopment

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How Entrepreneur’s Get So Mentally Tough

By Steve Siebold

Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart. When employees decide to make the leap to being their own boss, they quickly find themselves in a psychological/emotional war zone where they’re being rejected and criticized 95% of the time. Only a small percentage of people are emotionally equipped to survive in this environment. In this clip, I explain how the survivors get so mentally tough. #personaldevelopment

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Counterintuitive Mental Toughness Strategy

By Steve Siebold

Champions are a unique breed. They’ll try anything to improve performance, including nonlinear and counterintuitive techniques. If it helps them win, they’re in. In this short clip, I discuss the strategy most coaches refuse to use, mainly because they don’t understand it. After all, when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. #personaldevelopment #mentaltoughness

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Mental Toughness on Money

By Steve Siebold

Money is lightening rod subject, especially in success-obsessed America. And with the advent of social media, money seems to take on multiple meanings it objectively does not have. This causes confusion, especially for young people just starting out in the world, attempting to figure things out. Flashy homes, expensive cars, shiny jewelry, exotic vacations and other trappings of excessive spending make it appear as though these people are wealthy, when in many cases they are “all hat and no cattle.” It’s easy to fall into the trap of material excess, but in order to master the money game, you must avoid

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Stop Caring

By Steve Siebold

The addiction to the approval of others ranks among the most debilitating diseases. Studies show that this disease is built on a faulty premise that people are actually thinking about your behaviors, or even your life in general. The fact is that most of us spend the overwhelming majority of our time thinking about ourselves, solving our own problems. There’s not much time left to dedicate to evaluating and judging others, unless their behavior has a direct effect on our welfare. The cure to approval addiction begins with a simple decision: stop caring what others think. Watch this short video for

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On Sustained Effort

By Steve Siebold

Mental toughness is made up of a series of skills, not the least of which is the ability to persist in the midst of failure, over and again. This skill alone disqualifies most people from ever attaining uncommon success. In this clip from the Mental Toughness Podcast, I discuss the skill of sustained effort, which may be more responsible for building more empires than anything else. #personaldevelopment #mentaltoughness

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